Ornamental holder for insect-poisons.



L. T. BUSHBAUM. ORNAMENTAL HOLDER FOB INSECT POISONS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8. 1910.

Patented May 9, 1911.

' TA/YYINZ'SSE'E LAMBERT T. BUSHBAUM, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

ORNAMENTAL HOLDER FOR INSECT-POISONS'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1911.

Application filed June 8, 1910. Serial No. 565,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAMBERT T. BUSH- BAUM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Ornamental Holder for InsectPois0ns; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to insect attracting and exterminating devices, and has particular reference to an ornamental holder for fly or other insect poisons.

The object of my invention is the provision of a device of this character which is simple and inexpensive of manufacture and adapted to hold a fly or other insect poison, and to serve as an article of ornament as well as presenting an attractive appearance to flies.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and a preferred embodiment of the same illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is a side view of the device in open operative position. Fig. 2 is an inner side View of the same in half open position. Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the sheet blanks used in the formation of the article, and Fig. 4 is a side View of the article in folded state.

Referring to the drawings, A designates one of a plurality of like blanks or sheets from which the device of my invention is made. Each of these blanks or sheets comprises the like halves a a forming leaves of the device and having their outer edges cut in any desired form, but preferably in an ornamental style substantially as shown. Each blank also has an opening preferably centrally arranged therein for the purpose hereinafter described, which opening extends into both leaves of a blank and has its lower edge preferably substantially straight and at right angles to the longitudinal fold line 0 of the blank, as indicated.

In making the device B comprising my invention a plurality of the blanks A are placed one over another in registering relation, and one side of each blank is pasted or otherwise secured to the abutting face of the next blank on the side therewith substantially along the lines designated 01, (Z at the adjacent upper and lower edges thereof, while the other side of each blank is secured to the abutting face of the next blank on the side therewith substantially along the lines indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3 and designated 0 adjacent the upper and lower edges of the blank. The whole is then folded upon itself along the line 0 and the meeting faces of the leaves or halves a a of the inner sheet of the set are secured together along either the lines (Z (l or e e as the case may be. The leaves a a of the outer sheet of the set have their outer sides reinforced by strips of preferably stifier material than the sheets A.

Upon an opening of the article by a drawing of the outer reinforced leaves a a together about the common axis 0, the other leaves of the set separate except at the connected points (Z and 0, thus forming a plurality of cells or radial pockets 9 around the same, each of which registers with and opens into the central opening 6 of the article. Within this opening is preferably loosely placed a disk-like member It made of some poisonous substance of which flies or other insects like to partake, or a dish or other suitable poison containing member may be placed within such opening as indicated. The member h is placed within the opening when the article is partially opened, as shown in Fig. 2, and is prevented from removal therefrom when the article is fully opened, as shown in Fig. 1, the cells 9, however, permit free access thereto, due to their communication with such opening. thus apparent that the sheets at the base of the opening cooperate, when the article is open, to form a ledge upon which the poison carrying medium may rest.

The lower edges of the sheets A are preferabl cut as indicated at i to enable the article when open to stand upright on a supporting object.

\Vhen the article is opened, the strips f are secured in abutting position in any suitable manner. A perforated ear 7' is provided at the upper end of each sheet A to receive a suspending cord.

\Vhile the invention is not restricted to pasting and shaping the sheets as shown it is preferable to paste the same in such manner, as a plurality of cells are thereby pro- It is vided, each of which leads to the Opening 7), thus enabling a fly, which may enter any one of such cells, to be directed to the poisonous substance. I also wish it understood that the invention is not limited to any specific construction or arrangement of the parts except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

l. A device of the class described comprising a plurality of sheets placed one over the other, each sheet being provided'with a notch and having one face'thereof secured to the abutting sheet at its upper and lower edges as at points 03 and having its other face secured to the abutting sheet at points spaced from but adjacent the points (Z, as at points 6, the whole forming an article which is capable of being opened about a central line to separate the abutting sheets except at the points of secura-nce of such sheets to each other, the cells formed between the sheets opening into the space provided within the article by the notches in the sheets, said cells being arranged in alternate order adjacent'the upper and lower edges of the article, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, a plurality of sheets capable of folding upon notched from their fold lines outwardly to adapt them, when the article is open, to cooperate to provide an inclosure fora poison medlum, sald lnclosure cominunlcatlng wlth each cell 9 and preventing a removal of the medium when the article is open.

8. A device of the class described, com-.

prising a plurality of sheets A placedone over the other and secured to each other substantially at the points (Z and e and the Whole folded upon itself along a central line 0 with the meeting faces of the inner sheet attached, the article thus formed being adapted to open up by relative movements of the sheet halves about a common axis to provide an open circular cellular article, a portion, at least, of such cells having communication with such inclosure.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name 'to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LAMBERT T. BUSHBAUM.

Witnesses C. W. OWEN,

G. GAsKELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

